Performance of the Gemini near-infrared spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Elias, Jonathan H ^a   Rodgers, Bernadette ^b   Joyce, Richard R ^a   Lazo, Manuel ^b   Dopprnann, Gregory ^b   Winge, Claudia ^b   Rodríguez Ardila, Alberto ^c  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gemini telescope; Infrared spectrograph

Indexed keywords

GEMINI NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROGRAPH (GNIRS); GEMINI TELESCOPES; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; THERMAL DESIGN;

CRYOGENICS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; SPACE TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION;

INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 33749332744     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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